As the 7th oldest medical school in the nation, the College of Medicine has a longstanding reputation for educating and training superb physicians and scientists, fostering groundbreaking research to improve patients’ lives, and actively engaging with the community of Vermont and the region.

University of Vermont (UVM) cardiologist and heart rhythm specialist Peter Spector, M.D., is on a mission to improve the cure rate for a form of the most common heart rhythm disorder – atrial fibrillation (AF) – and has already earned a patent as he works towards this goal.

More kids nationwide are taking medications designed to treat such mental illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and pediatricians and psychiatrists at the University of Vermont want to know why.

Despite ongoing frigid temperatures across the region and country, spring is coming to the University of Vermont College of Medicine, which will kick off the spring 2015 series of Community Medical School with a presentation on “The Final Chapter: End-of-Life Decisions and Care” by Associate Professor of Medicine Zail Berry, ...

There are moments during the four years of medical school when a student must acknowledge the unanswerable questions that come with being a physician - brought on by the times when modern medicine falls short, when a patient can't be cured - or ignore those feelings of frustration and sorrow, leaving them untouched to possibly ...